Getting Through To Difficult Kids And Parents

With Ron Taffel • 4 Sessions • 4 Optional CE Credits

Kids and families in today's society are faced with unprecedented challenges and stresses, which then increases mistrust, and anger between kids and their parents. Kids are increasingly prone to angry outbursts, displays of disrespect toward adults, feelings of inadequacy, and a hunger to connect to a "second family." Parents feel stressed, misunderstood, disconnected from their kids, and confused about parental roles.

Session 3:

Roots and indicators of disconnection between adolescents and their family

Concept of the Second Family

Strategies to reconnect family relationships

Session 4:

Self-Esteem, Resilience, and a United Front

Strategies to nurture self-esteem in children and adolescents

Strategies to nurture resilience in children and adolescents

Importance of parental unity

Concrete strategies to help parents create a united front in the family

Meet Presenter Ron Taffel, PhD

Ron Taffel, Ph.D., conducts workshops across the country on the problems facing kids and their families today. He's the author of Getting Through to Difficult Kids and Parents; Nurturing Good Children Now; and The Second Family: How Adolescent Power Is Challenging the American Family.